Monday, September 9, 2013

Sept 9, 2013

Dear Family and Friends.

This week has been a great week we have been
very busy here in Kansas City.

Wednesday we had an appointment with Sister
Brooks and we went over and she feed us Ham and Turkey sandwiches. She is a less
active Lady that lives with her daughter and some other people. She has cancer
but is doing well. She just got her own endowments last month
and is coming back to church. We saw Dewey that afternoon and he
just wanted to talk. We gave David D. a bible and he wants to come to church in
2 weeks just won't be here this week. After dinner we went and saw Donzell
Smith, he is part of the Shaw/ Burgan family. His wife is a member but 2 of the
kids are not baptized and want to be baptized.

Thursday I was on Exchanges with Elder
Dyer in KC3. I went to his place. We did some service for an investigator that
is building a soup kitchen. We rolled up cables and moved things around so
people from the community could come and hang drywall. We saw lots of
people. We had dinner with the Thompson's.

He is security on the field for the Royal’s
field. After we came in for the night we started to bake. We baked a
cake, made no bake cookies, made dipped chocolate pretzels and still made it to
bed on time. The cake was in a shape of a cross. This was for District meeting
on Friday.

Friday was District meeting. It was on
Finding and was taught by Elder Weatherford. We had the dessert that we made
the night before, for lunch after the meeting. We saw Donzell W. and also
had dinner with him. We had chicken and rice and corn. We had more cake for
dinner. After dinner we saw Sister Biggs. She now has her daughter and
her husband living with her and James. James in not a member but came to church
and has been there listening to us when we teach Sister Biggs the lessons
again.

Saturday Our Bishop Benion started a
Lost Sheep Effort. I went with Bro Cunningham to see 5
people that bishop wanted us to see. None of them were home. We helped Sister
G. rotate her tires from one car to a different car so she could sell the one.
It was very hot. We had dinner with the Rowatts. They are both doctors
and are cool people. We had lasagna and bread and salad and cookie /brownies.
After Dinner we went to Nick's house. He is a less active member that wants to
come back to church and wants us to teach him and his wife and son. He
was home with Chris, his son, but his wife was gone for the weekend. The son
has lots of questions.

Sunday Church was good. It was about
missionary work. We still do not have a ward mission leader. We had a linger
longer after church and lots of people stayed and visited with each other. We
had dinner with the Condies; we had grilled cheese sandwiches, ice cream and
veggie straw chips. We also saw David R. he is doing great. He came to church and
is still doing good with not smoking. He is almost ready for baptism.

So today Elder Bitton got the ok to drive and
was told that he had gotten the ok to drive back when we got here in
July and could of driven then. So that means that we will need to share
the car with them. Elder Weatherford gave me a hair cut today, just before
coming to email.

I have had a great week we have had lots to
do. We had 5 people come to church, which was good. I am glade that we have so
much to do here. I miss all of you and love you all.

Love,

Elder Benjamin Allen

We still can have backpacks with two straps I
got a just black backpack that has two big pockets and 3 smaller pockets and
two pockets for water bottles.

We only need to wear our suits for church and
other meetings and during the winter only for dinner and after dinner. We don't
need to weir them during the afternoon.

We can now go to the temple 4 times a year.
That is every other transfer. We don't need to go with recent converts but that
would be nice if we could.